RE: Spanish University Signs with Google

[Manuela Moreno Mancebo <mancebo@buc.ucm.es>]

Dear colleagues:

The Library of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, one of the
most ancient universities in Spain (and the biggest) has signed
an agreement with Google to digitalize books and other documents
in public domain, becoming the first Spanish language institution
to meet the Google Books Project and the second one in Europe
(after Oxford University).

You can find more information at:
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/biblioteca/11979.php
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/boletin/07/

Kind regards.

Manuela Moreno Mancebo
Subdirectora de Servicios Tecnicos y Adquisiciones
Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Isaac Peral, s/n
28040 MADRID  ESPA=D1A
e-mail: mancebo@buc.ucm.es
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM

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De: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] En nombre de Ann Okerson
Enviado el: mi=E9rcoles, 27 de septiembre de 2006 20:24
Para: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Asunto: Spanish University Signs with Google

Of possible Interest.  This is "loose" translation from a news
item in ABC Madrid.  Ann Okerson
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The library of the Complutensian University of Madrid, the
largest in Spain after the National, will be accessible on the
Internet, thanks to an agreement with Google, according to an
announcement yesterday from both organizations.  The UCM will
thus be the first Spanish-speaking university taken into the
Google digital library, following the footsteps of Oxford,
Harvard, California, Michigan, Stanford, NYPL, and the EU
Congress (Parliament?).  The agreement with the search king of
the Internet imagines the digitization of books and documents in
the public domain and out of copyright in the library, which
amount to 10% of the three million works in the library.  In this
percentage are included two thousand works which have already
been archived in digital form.

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